Sunday, June 23, 2013

How Jefferson Handled The Muslim Problem

During the meeting Jefferson and Adams asked the Dey's ambassador whyMuslims held so much hostility towards America , a nation with which theyhad no previous contacts.

In a later meeting with the American Congress, the two future presidentsreported that Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja had answered thatIslam "was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written intheir Quran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged theirauthority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war uponthem wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they couldtake as Prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain inBattle was sure to go to Paradise."

For the following 15 years, the American government paid the Muslimsmillions of dollars for the safe passage of American ships or the return ofAmerican hostages. The payments in ransom and tribute amounted to 20percent of United States government annual revenues in 1800.

Not long after Jefferson's inauguration as president in 1801, he dispatcheda group of frigates to defend American interests in the Mediterranean , andinformed Congress.

Declaring that America was going to spend "millions for defense but not onecent for tribute," Jefferson pressed the issue by deploying AmericanMarines and many of America 's best warships to the Muslim Barbary Coast.

In 1805, American Marines marched across the dessert from Egypt intoTripolitania, forcing the surrender of Tripoli and the freeing of allAmerican slaves.

During the Jefferson administration, the Muslim Barbary States, crumblingas a result of intense American naval bombardment and on shore raids byMarines, finally officially agreed to abandon slavery and piracy.Jefferson's victory over the Muslims lives on today in the Marine Hymn,with the line, "From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli , wewill fight our country's battles on the land as on the sea."It wasn't until 1815 that the problem was fully settled by the total defeatof all the Muslim slave trading pirates.

Jefferson had been right. The "medium of war" was the only way to put anend to the Muslim problem. Mr. Ellison was right about Jefferson . He was a"visionary" wise enough to read and learn about the enemy from their ownMuslim book of jihad.http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rkvt88